Cyclone Sidr

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cyclone sidr - nasa photoOver on the Intersection, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney are wondering why on earth there’s been little or no US media coverage of Cyclone Sidr, the monster storm that is bearing down on Bangladesh. Given the size of the storm, its approach, and the low-lying nature of Bangladesh, the landfall of this storm could be utterly catastrophic (it has already begun to take many lives) – beyond Katrina, for example. Please go and have a look at their series of posts (and more to come I bet) about the storm. For example, here, here, here, here, and here.

-cvj

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  2. Clifford says:
    November 15, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Yeah… have a look at the comments on Sheril’s latest post. For example this one by jen_m:

    I think the reason that US media outlets completely ignored this story was summed up nicely by the AP stringer: “Bangladesh, a South Asian nation crisscrossed by river deltas, [b]routinely suffers large-scale loss of life and property from cyclones and floods[/b].” (Emphasis mine.) That sentence has been changed in the current version of the story, and is no longer quite so callous, but it was picked up everywhere the story ran list night, including CNN.

    So if a million people evacuate because of fires in California, that’s news because the evacuations don’t happen every year. But even if millions of Bangladeshis die, that’s not news, because it happens all the time.

    Disgusting.

    -cvj

  3. Yvette says:
    November 15, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    The funny thing was the cyclone made the main page of fark.com earlier this afternoon and it immediately went from no mention to top mention on CNN. Then Barry Bonds’ indictment came out, so it disappeared off the radar again.

    *sigh*